One huge thing most of us over look is our morning coffee. Almost all drip coffee makers have plastic tubing and baskets, which boiling hot water flows through on its way to the glass carafe. Heated water picks up 55-100 times more micro plastics than cold water. We know not to heat food in plastic containers, but this is just as bad. I bought an electric percolator which is all stainless steel, and there are other options as well.
Organize To Locally Solve Problems in Real Life: 1) Outlaw Retail Plastic Bottles. 2) Mandate Glass Bottles with Cash Deposit by Law. Example: I purchase grass fed milk in glass bottles with a cash deposit. We can do this. We did it before.
Because more laws always fix things and are good for people, right... Cruise missiles more than me or you are the big environmental waste and pollution!
@@Magneticlaw This is easier than most depressive defeatists might imagine. I don't drink ANY branded bottled beverages. In 2024 (today), it turns out 63% of Americans don't drink any "soda" of any kind. None. The Gallup polling company tracks that statistic. I ferment mustard, hot sauce, garlic, lemons and ketchup at home too. Once again, no plastic bottles. Wine comes in glass bottles. But I also brew wine and hard cider at home. And I make my own kefir and yogurt and cheese at home too. I have a glass lined thermos. I brew tea in it. No plastic. I'm an engineer. Technologies have limited application. My keyboard is plastic. But that lasts a few years.
Canned sparkling water has a plastic coating inside the can. Canned beer is the same. Canned tomate is the same. It is almost impossible to avoid food in plastic-coated container.
But it isn't. I buy my pop in glass. I've actually found some more craft sodas, and even a Stevia root beer with filtered water. Its expensive. But its also a treat. Milk, yourgert lemon juice can all be bought in glass. You can go to a local butcher shop for meat/cheese and get it in butcher paper silicone packing bags, silicone parchment to cover before a zip lock. Wrap fresh baked bread in silicone parchment before you zip lock it. Clearly filtered water pitcher takes care of micro plastics at home. Pro one shower filters do a good job for your shower. Its possible. Its takes commitment and conviction. And time sometimes. We've been trial and erroring for a half year now but its worth it, me and my wife both had a plastic detox , (our deflating thyroids could be felt) when we got our water pitcher.
By the way, could you @highintensityhealth create content about nutrition for babies and children? I would like to give my kids the best chances to grow healthy. For example, is it good to give WHEY protein to kids throughout their whole childhood?
The way I look at it is that death comes for us all. There are a million things that could harm us at every step. Eat well, get some exercise, spend time with people you love, and pray that God will grant you peace ❤
@@bocagoodtimes1460 lol... ok! That wasn't exactly the message but in a way it'd true. We aren't in as much control of our lives as we like to think. There is One who is greater, and much wiser than we are.
@@mark2073 yeah it's just I've been following a lot of these health podcasts and I think at some point it becomes one of the many things that distract us from the bigger picture and what really matters. I feel like there is so much pollution and microplastics, atropine and glyphosate in the food, hormones and fluoride in the water, but you just gotta know that you can't protect yourself from all these risks and threats.
When I was a kid, milk was delivered to our house in glass containers. It's been in plastic for what, the last 40 years? Kids drinking milk today get way more plastic exposure than 50 years ago.
Don't forget food containers! A few years ago I replaced all my plastic food storage containers with glass containers. When I buy something like butter, I remove the packaging and put it in glass. Cleaner, safer, no stains. Totally worth it. 👍
What can the men and women in our U.S. military do in a deployed environment overseas to mitigate risk, when only bottled water is available as a potable water source? When I was deployed to Iraq and Saudi Arabia in 2002-2003, we drank bottled water that was sitting on pallets in the desert sun for hours. At that time, nobody was talking about microplastics and we thought it was perfectly safe. Well, 20 years later and the military is still drinking the same water from plastic bottles. I’ve asked this question several times to other fitness influencers who’ve discussed the topic and have never returned an answer. Thanks HIH!
Facts. This is why I got a DrinkTanks 64 oz growler so I have enough filtered cold water at work. All stainless steel except for the silicone o-ring which I will replace with a natural rubber one. Wish they made steel brita filter jugs.
Totally understand what you're saying, but what are the solutions! Unless you're rich and can afford glass, what is the answer!? Daren't drink from the tap!
I been drinking my water from copper containers. I highly suspect that the endocrine response of excess belly fat that is so prevalent is influenced by endocrine disrupting microplastics as much as it is by processed food and sedentary lifestyles.
Sugar and carbs which are basically sugar are the only cause of obesity. Dropping sugar carbs is the only fix for insulin resistance/fatty ass disease.
@@chicogomez33 … The filter brand is called Berkey. There are some great reviews on RUclips that you can check out. They can filter straight-up mud water.
Do water filters help to remove plastics? Plumbing in houses is typically plastic in certain sections including the tubing to refrigerators for carrying water to ice makers.
Personally I don't think any water filters are all that great. A water distiller is about the only way I have found that I can be certain everything is separated out from the water. I use one called Megahome I got from Amazon, all parts that have water contact are stainless steel and a glass pitcher collects the water.
I work in a plastic injection molding factory... they took out most all BPA's in most of the materials used in the U.S. I mix thousands of pounds of material everyday. It's the fumes off of the presses that suck. Just can't avoid it sometimes.
BPA free is just a marketing term, now they use BPS or BPx because the FDA doesn't have enough evidence to recommend against its use, in 20 years they will recommend avoiding BPS so they will move to the others that have the same health effects but not the negative press.
Carlton Fredericks pointed out the dangers of food wrapped in plastic back in the early 70’s. He called them plasticizers. Whatever you may think of him, he got some things right.
Is there any food, particularly meat, that isn't packaged in plastic? I don't think such an option exists unless you are literally hunting your food in the world.
It’s easy to say this but I really don’t see any solutions. A video with ideas would be great Mike. For example - does a good reverse osmosis water filter eliminate microplastics? What’s most important to prioritize first? Obviously don’t eat in heated plastic containers or paper cups - but what about when your coffee machines have plastic tubs inside and etc
This is a pretty bold statement in that 99% of all the water we all consume is packaged in plastic bottles. One would be hard pressed to find water NOT in a plastic bottle. This also goes to most food products. At this point, what can possible be done to make a statistically relevant impact? There is simply not a feasible way to overcome this.
Also dont be fooled by paper cups. They seem completely harmless but have a plastic liner. So do soda cans, milk "cartons" and canned foods. Sadly plastic is in almost all packaged food..
Better to get milk in 1/2 gallon paper.....gallon plastic jugs have formaldehyde that leeches into the milk, so you'll be partially ready for the mortician......
sounds crazy but yes. I'm not sure about the types of probiotics that we could get in our gut. Check this out: "A strain of bacteria in the genus Serratia (shown) that scientists isolated from the gut of the darkling beetle Plesiophthalmus davidis, can break down polystyrene and might be a good candidate for dealing with polystyrene waste. The beetles typically feed on rotten wood."@@superiorSam9718
@@superiorSam9718why not? There are microbes that break down all the rubber on the roads that wear off the tires, and there are fungi that are being researched for bio remediation of several pollutants.
@@superiorSam9718 You would have to ask jsphfalcon which Probiotics they were referring to. As far as the fungi I was referring to, yes most of the research is being done on oyster mushrooms which humans eat a lot.
I was turned onto this a few years ago. I decided to eliminate food and drink coming from plastic. It's impossible at this point, but greatly reducing is worth a try.
Pure Life Baby water (without fluoride) comes in plastic bottles. Would like to find good microplastic water filters. 4:50 milk in paper cartons are plastic lined as well.
It might not get all of it, but I use a brand of counter top filter called a "Zero Water" and I notice a HUGE difference in taste. Its a 5 stage filter, I'd say this might work for those of you who might not be able to afford an installed unit.
I got a Megahome water distiller which has all stainless steel water contact. Way better than any kind of filtration system. Best 300 bucks I ever spent. It removes, or I should say leaves behind, everything. I don't know why more people don't use these. Super easy to use.
Lifefactory is a great glass company. I have their water bottles and baby/toddler cups. Currently planing to buy wooden bowls for the kids and elk and friends mason jar straw cups for them ☺️ slowly steering away from those darn devil plastics.
You say that PVC piping isn't that big of a deal, but I'm betting any minute now some new study will crop up saying that PVC plastic is lethal in some way or other (similar to the case with lead, asbestos, and DDT, not to mention the 'safe and effective solution' against our most recent pandemic!) This stuff never ends. It's just silly. We've managed to make practically everything in an industrialised society lethal, one way or the other. But even worse than this is the way in which these things kill, which is usually slowly and painfully, with plenty of agony for the affected and everyone around them, but not without first depleting the family's resources in [usually] futile attempts at recovery. The entire pharmaceutical complex is in cahoots with the food and 'health' services industries in a conspiracy to slowly kill the population. Filtered water, which, depending on the quality of the filtering can at least substantially reduce microplastics, also eliminates most of the minerals in the water, which makes the ingested water demineralise the body, which means that one has to then re-mineralise with proper food, but it becomes a question of navigating the maze of available (and affordable) options that would constitute a proper diet. 99% of the population does not do this, either because it's too complicated and/or because they cannot afford it. Take salmon, for example: 99% of available salmon (which is already too expensive for most), is farmed, artificially coloured, and does not have anywhere near the levels of Omega-3 of wild salmon. It also normally has antibiotics and/or has been fed GMO stuff. Avocados are prohibitively expensive, not to mention that they are water hogs. Etc, etc. I wonder if it is even realistic/possible to come up with such a thing as an affordable, healthy diet. Does anyone know? To think that only a few years ago (around 80?) everything was BIO and there were no plastics anywhere. Oh my, how we have progressed!
I don't know how true but I read that distilled water is so pure it acts like a sponge and picks up particles so much so that the plastic it picks up is held onto and not released into the body but just goes thru it. When traveling and I have to buy water in plastic I make it distilled
Thanks , is there anything I can do to remove the nano-plastics in my body from say 25 years of plastic bottle water drinking due to local city water not being so good ? Are there vitamins , maybe garlic , whatever will work , would be grateful to know about by many .
Here's a ChatGPT summary: - A study found microplastics in carotid artery plaque. - Follow-up study by UC Irvine scientists discovered high concentrations of micro and nanoplastics in bottled water. - The study, titled "Rapid Single Particle Chemical Imaging of Nano Plastics by SRS Microscopy," aimed to quantify micro and nanoplastic levels in plastic bottled water. - Microplastics can off-gas from thin plastic bottles into the water, potentially leading to health issues. - Health concerns include decreased vascular elasticity, increased vascular stiffness, erectile dysfunction, high blood pressure, brain effects like beta amyloid plaque formation, and peripheral vascular disease. - Micro and nanoplastics have endocrine-disrupting properties, affecting hormones like testosterone and estrogen. - Plastic exposure is linked to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and endocrine issues. - Each liter of water in plastic bottles releases about 240,000 nano and microplastic particles. - The speaker encourages using glass or stainless steel water bottles and avoiding plastic containers. - The speaker uses a two-stage carbon and resin filtration system from Custom Pure Water sources in Seattle. - Water filters should be chosen based on local water specific gravity, as different areas require different filters. - The speaker advises against storing hot food in plastic and recommends cooking from scratch. - Sauna therapy and exercise may help excrete microplastic particles. - Main message: Avoid drinking from plastic water bottles due to the health risks associated with microplastic consumption, and invest in alternatives like glass or stainless steel bottles for better health.
I rarely buy any beverages in plastic bottles any more. I like my water in glass bottles or straight from the tap. Where I live, I have great tap water. Amazing quality. Expensive too :)
Chewing gum contains plastic so consider organic chewing gum such as TruGum. When you brush your teeth you grind plastic against your teeth which definitely frees microplastics into your body, so bamboo toothbrush or similar is worth the investment. Also I switched from fluoride toothpaste (which is neurotoxic) to coconut charcoal powder with some other organic ingredients, called Cocosnuss, but will try coconut oil based toothpaste options next.
Alexapure or berkey water filters are pretty tall but very good for filter garbage city water. They filter microplastics and heavy metals here in florida. They even have fluoride filters As for a water jug, a gallon stainless steel yeti or equivalent will last throughout a gym session or all day and keep your drink cold
What recommendations do you have for buying meat that hasn't been stored in plastic? Or storing that meat in your freezer so you can survive more than a couple days?
what about the plastic lids on the stainless and glass bottles ? ?? Also does nalgene and / or lexan water bottles act the same as regular plastics ?? ??
By the way, could you @highintensityhealth create content about nutrition for babies and children? I would like to give my kids the best chances to grow healthy. For example, is it good to give WHEY protein to kids throughout their whole childhood?
It's alarming when my husband brings home from church hot food in old plastic ice cream containers. These containers were never meant to store hot food. Please don't put them in the dishwasher either!!
Well, if you're willing to pay more, you can avoid plastic water bottles (say to go to cans or glass), but you can't avoid food wrapped in plastic cause that's just the way they come. You can get Parmesan without the cellulose and plastic (that can come in glass), but not much else more after that.
The real concern seems to be at these particles are almost at the molecular level so that even fine filtration won't remove then. A home distiller would probably remove than any other method but I'm guessing.
I did some research on water filters, and PUR+ tap filters seemed the best to me. At least it removes some estrogenics and microplastics from the water. However, I have no idea how to get rid of nanoplastics. Perhaps by boiling on top of filtering which is not a big deal. I also recommend buying copper bottles instead of glass or stainless steel. Steel and glass are good but copper not only is free of plastic, but also has benefits such as sterilizing effects and providing ionized copper. PS. Carbonizing water and adding organic juice beats Coca-Cola and such souvereignly. And you can buy aftermarket glass bottles for Sodastream machine (or similar) to avoid plastic completely in the chain.
@@TomHimanen You can test your water before and after with a water tester. They're cheap. You'll see for yourself how many solids are left after the process.
When they stop having bpa, then they go for bps. It's just as bad, but now it goes by a different name, so it stays snuck in the process for a bit longer.
My grandfather always hated these plastics , he scolded us for replacing many of the utensils with plastics, we should have listened., now their bringing back the clay utensils with high prices, earlier we had few clay pot/utensils maker in every town / village.., i remember when we were younger we used soft drinks bottle as water bottles in our schools., sometimes one such bottles were used for few months., The water that we stored in those clay pots were very cool .., miss those days ., 😢😢
I remember when disposable water bottles became popular in the 90s while I was in grade school. A lot of my mom's friends would send them to class with plastic water and coke bottles that they'd put through the dishwasher and reuse them for months. The news started saying "Stopppp don't do that!" and I remember the adults around me called bs on the potential harms of reusing plastics. Now we know how dangerous this actually is. I'm still removing disposable plastics that my husband puts in the dishwasher because it was so normal for him as a kid to put everything in the dishwasher.
Thanks for the info! I kinda went nuts buying stainless drinkware from a "certain white sasquatch company", in order to stop drinking from plastic containers a few years ago. Yes there is the problem of meat packers wrapping up what I buy in plastic...
I just don’t know a good way to avoid fluoride and microplastics simultaneously without getting a reverse osmosis system installed. So I keep drinking bottled water that has the least amount of fluoride.
wat bottles do you recommend? i see a lot of bottles that say 'bpa-free' but im sure they contain other harmful things such as bps. Is stainless steel a safe option?
It’s everywhere you mind as well stop eating and drinking at this point. We are just now realizing the last 100+ years we have been subjected to these plastics no real way to avoid it completely.
even the highest quality meat here is packaged in plastic..organic grass fed beef comes in cardboard with plastic wrapped around it so what are we supposed to do ? _ ?
So where do we get our water source from since most water comes in plastic bottles? City water has all kinds of fluoride, bleaching agents, bacteria among other pathogens and even the most sophisticated filtration systems, at least from my understanding, does not remove them all.
Is there a difference between the amount of Microplastics in a plastic bottle that has been on the shelf for a while and bought rather than a bottle that has been filled with water from a tap that day and drunk that day. For example I refill a plastic bottle in the morning and drink it during the day. I guess this would have less microplastics than a bottle bought from a shop that has been on the shelf a few days.
The water in my area is non-potable - full of chemicals and we're not supposed to drink it. What the hell choice do I have but to drink from bottled water?
Same, brother. I can't afford the water filter, so we have to wander what less harmful. I live in Netherlands, so tap water is pretty good here, so I guess this is the right move
This is a follow up to this video from last week! ruclips.net/video/9yWLumKDP9M/видео.htmlsi=YhtDzuZsR5JafXNc
You’re being purposefully poisoned. The government wants you to have low-testosterone levels.
All meat is wrapped in plastic these days. How do you avoid/reduce that? Cheese is all wrapped in plastic as well.
Hi, PLEASE talk about Apeel. I just hears about this from Dr. Eric Berg. This is becoming more widespread!
My grandpa full of asbestos, my Dad full of lead, me I'm full of micro plastic.
Amen 😔 hopefully we can change that for the next generation after us.
@@_pugito1659 Kids are already full of vaccines.
@@SilentShadowPunisher not all kids luckily!
After the shitshow of covid a lot of mother's are more cautious of vaccines
Buy a hydroflask 🤗with straw
It can come out though
There's a way
Your grandpa is hard rock.
Your dad is heavy metal.
But you are pop music..
One huge thing most of us over look is our morning coffee. Almost all drip coffee makers have plastic tubing and baskets, which boiling hot water flows through on its way to the glass carafe. Heated water picks up 55-100 times more micro plastics than cold water. We know not to heat food in plastic containers, but this is just as bad. I bought an electric percolator which is all stainless steel, and there are other options as well.
Oh wow, thanks for pointing this out. A blind spot for me.
Coffee/caffeine blocks vitamin/mineral absorption, and also depletes those.
Huge comment (and a sort of subconscious worry of mine, now verified)
I just bought a percolator too.
oh god. it's everywhere isn't it? being overwhelmed isn't justification for giving in to it all.
Organize To Locally Solve Problems in Real Life: 1) Outlaw Retail Plastic Bottles. 2) Mandate Glass Bottles with Cash Deposit by Law. Example: I purchase grass fed milk in glass bottles with a cash deposit. We can do this. We did it before.
Because more laws always fix things and are good for people, right...
Cruise missiles more than me or you are the big environmental waste and pollution!
Going up against big petroleum, huh? Good luck.....
@@Magneticlaw This is easier than most depressive defeatists might imagine. I don't drink ANY branded bottled beverages. In 2024 (today), it turns out 63% of Americans don't drink any "soda" of any kind. None. The Gallup polling company tracks that statistic. I ferment mustard, hot sauce, garlic, lemons and ketchup at home too. Once again, no plastic bottles. Wine comes in glass bottles. But I also brew wine and hard cider at home. And I make my own kefir and yogurt and cheese at home too. I have a glass lined thermos. I brew tea in it. No plastic. I'm an engineer. Technologies have limited application. My keyboard is plastic. But that lasts a few years.
No thanks.
Outlaw yourself.
Canned sparkling water has a plastic coating inside the can. Canned beer is the same. Canned tomate is the same. It is almost impossible to avoid food in plastic-coated container.
But it isn't. I buy my pop in glass. I've actually found some more craft sodas, and even a Stevia root beer with filtered water. Its expensive. But its also a treat. Milk, yourgert lemon juice can all be bought in glass. You can go to a local butcher shop for meat/cheese and get it in butcher paper silicone packing bags, silicone parchment to cover before a zip lock. Wrap fresh baked bread in silicone parchment before you zip lock it.
Clearly filtered water pitcher takes care of micro plastics at home. Pro one shower filters do a good job for your shower.
Its possible. Its takes commitment and conviction. And time sometimes. We've been trial and erroring for a half year now but its worth it, me and my wife both had a plastic detox , (our deflating thyroids could be felt) when we got our water pitcher.
I swear, we are jumping through hoops at this point.
Doesn't matter when you're breathing it in all day anyway. Fibers from clothing, carpets, etc.
Even the produce is wrapped in plastic and the frozen meats as well. It's so hard.
Hello fresh boxes contain heaps of plastic. Not good for the environment or people
Remember, if you have children, get your baby a stainless steel baby bottle, more expensive, but well worth it.
Or just breastfeed. What are the teats made out of? Plastic? And silicone is a semi-synthetic product.
By the way, could you @highintensityhealth create content about nutrition for babies and children? I would like to give my kids the best chances to grow healthy. For example, is it good to give WHEY protein to kids throughout their whole childhood?
@@TomHimanenfollow the gaps diet by Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride..several RUclips channel have information ❤
Aluminum cans are lined with plastic.
The way I look at it is that death comes for us all. There are a million things that could harm us at every step. Eat well, get some exercise, spend time with people you love, and pray that God will grant you peace ❤
Yeah the Grim Reaper is around every corner....
@@bocagoodtimes1460 lol... ok! That wasn't exactly the message but in a way it'd true. We aren't in as much control of our lives as we like to think. There is One who is greater, and much wiser than we are.
There is easy low hanging fruit we can address to make big improvements with little effort. Nothign is perfect.
@@mark2073 yeah it's just I've been following a lot of these health podcasts and I think at some point it becomes one of the many things that distract us from the bigger picture and what really matters. I feel like there is so much pollution and microplastics, atropine and glyphosate in the food, hormones and fluoride in the water, but you just gotta know that you can't protect yourself from all these risks and threats.
When I was a kid, milk was delivered to our house in glass containers. It's been in plastic for what, the last 40 years? Kids drinking milk today get way more plastic exposure than 50 years ago.
Even when I was a kid I literally said not to ban the glass bottles!
Don't forget food containers! A few years ago I replaced all my plastic food storage containers with glass containers. When I buy something like butter, I remove the packaging and put it in glass. Cleaner, safer, no stains. Totally worth it. 👍
What can the men and women in our U.S. military do in a deployed environment overseas to mitigate risk, when only bottled water is available as a potable water source? When I was deployed to Iraq and Saudi Arabia in 2002-2003, we drank bottled water that was sitting on pallets in the desert sun for hours. At that time, nobody was talking about microplastics and we thought it was perfectly safe. Well, 20 years later and the military is still drinking the same water from plastic bottles. I’ve asked this question several times to other fitness influencers who’ve discussed the topic and have never returned an answer. Thanks HIH!
I think when you are deployed you should worry about much more than some microplastics in your water but thats just my opinion...
REMEMBER: disposable paper cups for coffee are 99% paper and 1% plastic… and that plastic is in - the inclining, precisely where your drink touches it
HOW can people detox from Plastics that are in our bodies?
Regular saunas,exercise and liver detox foods, herbs and spices. Can only do so much tho unfortunately 😕
@@KiLLaBushWooKiE Thanks
@@priyasallDr Eric Berg has a video that answers your question on getting the micro plastics out of the body.
@@brianlittrell797 Thank you, I'll look that up.
WFPB diet avoids most plastics so it would eventually get flushed out.
Where I live in Vancouver there is a spring coming straight out of a granite mountain. I fill up glass water bottles directly and drink it straight.
Facts. This is why I got a DrinkTanks 64 oz growler so I have enough filtered cold water at work. All stainless steel except for the silicone o-ring which I will replace with a natural rubber one. Wish they made steel brita filter jugs.
Totally understand what you're saying, but what are the solutions! Unless you're rich and can afford glass, what is the answer!? Daren't drink from the tap!
I been drinking my water from copper containers. I highly suspect that the endocrine response of excess belly fat that is so prevalent is influenced by endocrine disrupting microplastics as much as it is by processed food and sedentary lifestyles.
I have a copper canteen. I was warned to leave it in the canteen for long periods of time.
Sugar and carbs which are basically sugar are the only cause of obesity. Dropping sugar carbs is the only fix for insulin resistance/fatty ass disease.
Steel cups and a Berkey filter, for me
what brand do you have?
@@chicogomez33 … The filter brand is called Berkey. There are some great reviews on RUclips that you can check out. They can filter straight-up mud water.
Do water filters help to remove plastics? Plumbing in houses is typically plastic in certain sections including the tubing to refrigerators for carrying water to ice makers.
Personally I don't think any water filters are all that great. A water distiller is about the only way I have found that I can be certain everything is separated out from the water. I use one called Megahome I got from Amazon, all parts that have water contact are stainless steel and a glass pitcher collects the water.
I work in a plastic injection molding factory... they took out most all BPA's in most of the materials used in the U.S.
I mix thousands of pounds of material everyday. It's the fumes off of the presses that suck. Just can't avoid it sometimes.
I'm guessing you wear a special mask, to protect from fumes? ..
That doesn't matter. What about BPS and all the other forms?
BPA free is just a marketing term, now they use BPS or BPx because the FDA doesn't have enough evidence to recommend against its use, in 20 years they will recommend avoiding BPS so they will move to the others that have the same health effects but not the negative press.
Carlton Fredericks pointed out the dangers of food wrapped in plastic back in the early 70’s. He called them plasticizers. Whatever you may think of him, he got some things right.
I Live in the UK
and can only buy water in plastic bottles it's that or tap water
and I'm not drinking tap water.
I'll take spring water in plastic bottles over the nasty tap water coming from the cities water department.
@@musicman7297 yes I would
Still take a chance on drinking
Out of plastic bottles
Then what they put in our tap water.
Use a water distiller. It seems many people are unaware of these devices.
@@cuteface88 LOL 😂, no thanks. I'll stick with the spring water in a plastic bottle or even rain water.
@@cuteface88 but then the water
Wouldn't have any minerals in it
he said if water is distilled and has
no minerals the water is worthless .
Is there any food, particularly meat, that isn't packaged in plastic? I don't think such an option exists unless you are literally hunting your food in the world.
It’s easy to say this but I really don’t see any solutions. A video with ideas would be great Mike.
For example - does a good reverse osmosis water filter eliminate microplastics?
What’s most important to prioritize first? Obviously don’t eat in heated plastic containers or paper cups - but what about when your coffee machines have plastic tubs inside and etc
This is a pretty bold statement in that 99% of all the water we all consume is packaged in plastic bottles. One would be hard pressed to find water NOT in a plastic bottle. This also goes to most food products. At this point, what can possible be done to make a statistically relevant impact? There is simply not a feasible way to overcome this.
Also dont be fooled by paper cups. They seem completely harmless but have a plastic liner. So do soda cans, milk "cartons" and canned foods. Sadly plastic is in almost all packaged food..
Better to get milk in 1/2 gallon paper.....gallon plastic jugs have formaldehyde that leeches into the milk, so you'll be partially ready for the mortician......
@@MagneticlawI think they mean that the milk in cardboard cartons has a plastic liner. It has to have some way to make the cardboard waterproof.
it's everywhere. I read certain probiotics do try to remove microplastics from our gut.
Bacteria vs chunks of plastics?
sounds crazy but yes. I'm not sure about the types of probiotics that we could get in our gut. Check this out: "A strain of bacteria in the genus Serratia (shown) that scientists isolated from the gut of the darkling beetle Plesiophthalmus davidis, can break down polystyrene and might be a good candidate for dealing with polystyrene waste. The beetles typically feed on rotten wood."@@superiorSam9718
@@superiorSam9718why not? There are microbes that break down all the rubber on the roads that wear off the tires, and there are fungi that are being researched for bio remediation of several pollutants.
@@upyoursassmonkey are they safe in the human digestive tract though?
@@superiorSam9718 You would have to ask jsphfalcon which Probiotics they were referring to. As far as the fungi I was referring to, yes most of the research is being done on oyster mushrooms which humans eat a lot.
Most new homes have PEX plastic plumbing running through the home, so it’s almost impossible to avoid it nowadays 😢.
Look for a good reverse osmosis water filter, you can get it as a sink attachment and it’ll filter out everything 🙏💯
I was turned onto this a few years ago. I decided to eliminate food and drink coming from plastic. It's impossible at this point, but greatly reducing is worth a try.
Pure Life Baby water (without fluoride) comes in plastic bottles. Would like to find good microplastic water filters. 4:50 milk in paper cartons are plastic lined as well.
It might not get all of it, but I use a brand of counter top filter called a "Zero Water" and I notice a HUGE difference in taste. Its a 5 stage filter, I'd say this might work for those of you who might not be able to afford an installed unit.
Let's use filters...which are basically plastic bottles 😂
How about a reverse osmosis under sink 5micron filter?
many cans are lined with plastic
Soda cans, yes. Why? Because the drink itself is acidic.
Yeah but what about city water from the fountain? How safe is that? Where do we get good water?
What about my plastic Tupperware containers! Does that count or does it not count because it’s short term storage
I got a Megahome water distiller which has all stainless steel water contact. Way better than any kind of filtration system. Best 300 bucks I ever spent. It removes, or I should say leaves behind, everything. I don't know why more people don't use these. Super easy to use.
Lifefactory is a great glass company. I have their water bottles and baby/toddler cups. Currently planing to buy wooden bowls for the kids and elk and friends mason jar straw cups for them ☺️ slowly steering away from those darn devil plastics.
Tough luck sir, we have traces of plastic the moment we are born
You say that PVC piping isn't that big of a deal, but I'm betting any minute now some new study will crop up saying that PVC plastic is lethal in some way or other (similar to the case with lead, asbestos, and DDT, not to mention the 'safe and effective solution' against our most recent pandemic!) This stuff never ends. It's just silly. We've managed to make practically everything in an industrialised society lethal, one way or the other. But even worse than this is the way in which these things kill, which is usually slowly and painfully, with plenty of agony for the affected and everyone around them, but not without first depleting the family's resources in [usually] futile attempts at recovery. The entire pharmaceutical complex is in cahoots with the food and 'health' services industries in a conspiracy to slowly kill the population.
Filtered water, which, depending on the quality of the filtering can at least substantially reduce microplastics, also eliminates most of the minerals in the water, which makes the ingested water demineralise the body, which means that one has to then re-mineralise with proper food, but it becomes a question of navigating the maze of available (and affordable) options that would constitute a proper diet. 99% of the population does not do this, either because it's too complicated and/or because they cannot afford it. Take salmon, for example: 99% of available salmon (which is already too expensive for most), is farmed, artificially coloured, and does not have anywhere near the levels of Omega-3 of wild salmon. It also normally has antibiotics and/or has been fed GMO stuff. Avocados are prohibitively expensive, not to mention that they are water hogs. Etc, etc. I wonder if it is even realistic/possible to come up with such a thing as an affordable, healthy diet. Does anyone know?
To think that only a few years ago (around 80?) everything was BIO and there were no plastics anywhere. Oh my, how we have progressed!
I just discovered this in an article that I was reading two days ago.
I don't know how true but I read that distilled water is so pure it acts like a sponge and picks up particles so much so that the plastic it picks up is held onto and not released into the body but just goes thru it. When traveling and I have to buy water in plastic I make it distilled
Thanks , is there anything I can do to remove the nano-plastics in my body from say 25 years of plastic bottle water drinking due to local city water not being so good ? Are there vitamins , maybe garlic , whatever will work , would be grateful to know about by many .
I, fortunately, have known this for years and have strived to avoid single-use plastic bottles and food containers.
Much of this microplastic comes from car tires. It's detectable in the oceans. Do filters really remove it?
What do we do now though? Almost all food is practically wrapped in plastic!
Greed corrupted every aspect of this country it’s disgusting. Ignorance is bliss 🙃
Here's a ChatGPT summary:
- A study found microplastics in carotid artery plaque.
- Follow-up study by UC Irvine scientists discovered high concentrations of micro and nanoplastics in bottled water.
- The study, titled "Rapid Single Particle Chemical Imaging of Nano Plastics by SRS Microscopy," aimed to quantify micro and nanoplastic levels in plastic bottled water.
- Microplastics can off-gas from thin plastic bottles into the water, potentially leading to health issues.
- Health concerns include decreased vascular elasticity, increased vascular stiffness, erectile dysfunction, high blood pressure, brain effects like beta amyloid plaque formation, and peripheral vascular disease.
- Micro and nanoplastics have endocrine-disrupting properties, affecting hormones like testosterone and estrogen.
- Plastic exposure is linked to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and endocrine issues.
- Each liter of water in plastic bottles releases about 240,000 nano and microplastic particles.
- The speaker encourages using glass or stainless steel water bottles and avoiding plastic containers.
- The speaker uses a two-stage carbon and resin filtration system from Custom Pure Water sources in Seattle.
- Water filters should be chosen based on local water specific gravity, as different areas require different filters.
- The speaker advises against storing hot food in plastic and recommends cooking from scratch.
- Sauna therapy and exercise may help excrete microplastic particles.
- Main message: Avoid drinking from plastic water bottles due to the health risks associated with microplastic consumption, and invest in alternatives like glass or stainless steel bottles for better health.
I rarely buy any beverages in plastic bottles any more. I like my water in glass bottles or straight from the tap. Where I live, I have great tap water. Amazing quality. Expensive too :)
Chewing gum contains plastic so consider organic chewing gum such as TruGum. When you brush your teeth you grind plastic against your teeth which definitely frees microplastics into your body, so bamboo toothbrush or similar is worth the investment. Also I switched from fluoride toothpaste (which is neurotoxic) to coconut charcoal powder with some other organic ingredients, called Cocosnuss, but will try coconut oil based toothpaste options next.
What are we supposed to do?
Any solutions to the problem?
Get a water distiller.
Alexapure or berkey water filters are pretty tall but very good for filter garbage city water. They filter microplastics and heavy metals here in florida. They even have fluoride filters
As for a water jug, a gallon stainless steel yeti or equivalent will last throughout a gym session or all day and keep your drink cold
What recommendations do you have for buying meat that hasn't been stored in plastic? Or storing that meat in your freezer so you can survive more than a couple days?
Butcher paper or bentgo glass containers for storage. Going to have to hunt your own wild game to avoid plastic 100%.
What do we dump the plastic water bottle into a glass jar?
what about the plastic lids on the stainless and glass bottles ? ?? Also does nalgene and / or lexan water bottles act the same as regular plastics ?? ??
Those degrade and harm you every time you use them. Yes, those nalgene bottles are horrible.
What are those Myoxcience packets made of?
Microplastics are found in ARTERIAL PLAQUE. Remember? Heart attack and stroke risks?
4:15 where is the video on RUclips? See the thumbnail, but no link in description or related… also not found in search.
Do you think filtering bottled water through a life straw helps with the micro plastics?
It's in canned foods as well...soft drinks. You can find products that are bpa free. We need someone to start a petition for change...now.
By the way, could you @highintensityhealth create content about nutrition for babies and children? I would like to give my kids the best chances to grow healthy. For example, is it good to give WHEY protein to kids throughout their whole childhood?
It's alarming when my husband brings home from church hot food in old plastic ice cream containers. These containers were never meant to store hot food. Please don't put them in the dishwasher either!!
Purified & tap water have their own issues as well 🤷
Well, if you're willing to pay more, you can avoid plastic water bottles (say to go to cans or glass), but you can't avoid food wrapped in plastic cause that's just the way they come. You can get Parmesan without the cellulose and plastic (that can come in glass), but not much else more after that.
The real concern seems to be at these particles are almost at the molecular level so that even fine filtration won't remove then. A home distiller would probably remove than any other method but I'm guessing.
I did some research on water filters, and PUR+ tap filters seemed the best to me. At least it removes some estrogenics and microplastics from the water. However, I have no idea how to get rid of nanoplastics. Perhaps by boiling on top of filtering which is not a big deal.
I also recommend buying copper bottles instead of glass or stainless steel. Steel and glass are good but copper not only is free of plastic, but also has benefits such as sterilizing effects and providing ionized copper.
PS. Carbonizing water and adding organic juice beats Coca-Cola and such souvereignly. And you can buy aftermarket glass bottles for Sodastream machine (or similar) to avoid plastic completely in the chain.
Get a water distiller, dude.
@@cuteface88 Don't the nanoplastics fly along with the steam and get condensated to the distilled water?
@@TomHimanen You can test your water before and after with a water tester. They're cheap. You'll see for yourself how many solids are left after the process.
@@cuteface88 Good idea. I will start researching this stuff. Measuring is the only way to know for sure.
I live in Mexico. We can't drink the water so we fill three 5 gallon jugs and buy two water bottle cases. No bueno 😕
Install water filter?
Purchase a water distiller and use that for drinking. It will remove everything nasty
yes this is a good option. @@cuteface88
Hopefully at minimum BPA free plastic bottles is a must legal requirement for these companies. Won't hold me breath tho. Smh.
Doesn't matter all plastic release into water.
Bpa free can have worse than bpa plant plastic like hemp is better
When they stop having bpa, then they go for bps. It's just as bad, but now it goes by a different name, so it stays snuck in the process for a bit longer.
My grandfather always hated these plastics , he scolded us for replacing many of the utensils with plastics, we should have listened., now their bringing back the clay utensils with high prices, earlier we had few clay pot/utensils maker in every town / village.., i remember when we were younger we used soft drinks bottle as water bottles in our schools., sometimes one such bottles were used for few months., The water that we stored in those clay pots were very cool .., miss those days ., 😢😢
I remember when disposable water bottles became popular in the 90s while I was in grade school. A lot of my mom's friends would send them to class with plastic water and coke bottles that they'd put through the dishwasher and reuse them for months. The news started saying "Stopppp don't do that!" and I remember the adults around me called bs on the potential harms of reusing plastics. Now we know how dangerous this actually is. I'm still removing disposable plastics that my husband puts in the dishwasher because it was so normal for him as a kid to put everything in the dishwasher.
I'm trying to avoid plastic food and drink containers whenever possible. But for some foods, it really is challenging.
How do we sous vide without plastics?
And just FYI everybody, plastic is a by-product of the petroleum industry and isn't going anywhere.
Thanks for the info! I kinda went nuts buying stainless drinkware from a "certain white sasquatch company", in order to stop drinking from plastic containers a few years ago. Yes there is the problem of meat packers wrapping up what I buy in plastic...
Does a “whole of house” water filter system, introduce microplastics too?
I just don’t know a good way to avoid fluoride and microplastics simultaneously without getting a reverse osmosis system installed. So I keep drinking bottled water that has the least amount of fluoride.
Reverse osmosis water filters remove microplastics. They remove everything, even hormones, minerals, fluoride, chlorine, medicine. Everything.
Life straw has a pitcher style filter products that apparently filters microplastic. How true it is I am unsure.
wat bottles do you recommend? i see a lot of bottles that say 'bpa-free' but im sure they contain other harmful things such as bps. Is stainless steel a safe option?
It’s everywhere you mind as well stop eating and drinking at this point. We are just now realizing the last 100+ years we have been subjected to these plastics no real way to avoid it completely.
What if it's BPA free?
If plastic, then they choose bps. No different.
even the highest quality meat here is packaged in plastic..organic grass fed beef comes in cardboard with plastic wrapped around it so what are we supposed to do ? _ ?
Great info. Stay thirsty my friends. 😊
So where do we get our water source from since most water comes in plastic bottles? City water has all kinds of fluoride, bleaching agents, bacteria among other pathogens and even the most sophisticated filtration systems, at least from my understanding, does not remove them all.
Maybe this will get people to reduce their plastic use. You can buy yogurt in glass containers. Not everything has to be in plastic.
Is there a difference between the amount of Microplastics in a plastic bottle that has been on the shelf for a while and bought rather than a bottle that has been filled with water from a tap that day and drunk that day.
For example I refill a plastic bottle in the morning and drink it during the day. I guess this would have less microplastics than a bottle bought from a shop that has been on the shelf a few days.
Berkey filters remove microplastics
As someone who enjoyed carbonated spring water how do you recommend I go about consuming this if buy slabs of bottles of this is not good?
Thank you…
How can I drink mineral water when it is only sold in PET containers?😊
I give up. I'm just going to live my life and not worry about all this stuff. Pretty sure the ship has already sailed on this one for me anyway
What about thicker plastics like #5?
Gonna have to get a stainless gallon jug 🤔
Cant drink water from plastic or tap water because of flouride which water filters dont remove. What the hell do we drink. Canned water?
That would have aluminum.
Oh no.........we have been using these for the last 2 decades!
The water in my area is non-potable - full of chemicals and we're not supposed to drink it. What the hell choice do I have but to drink from bottled water?
I wonder if this also include the big gallon jugs? I store water in em and put it into my filter (britta/pur) then stainless jug
Any thoughts on our typical camelback cycling podium bottles?
Where da fook do I get my water from ,bottled =plastic. Tap = fluoride 😢😢😢 WHERE ?
Exactly, I'm disabled and its either tap water or bottle or Britta (which is plastic and doesn't even filter bad shet like fluoride)
Same, brother. I can't afford the water filter, so we have to wander what less harmful. I live in Netherlands, so tap water is pretty good here, so I guess this is the right move
If there's a natural grocers around, they may have certain brands of bottled water which come in cans or glass. It will cost more, though.
Water distillers are a thing. Buy one.